Jun 17 13
PRESS RELEASE: Kenyan Developers Qualify for Global Hack for Good Championship
Refugees United and Ericsson hosted a hackathon in Nairobi, Kenya, on June 15th & 16th gathering innovative developers from Nairobi Ericsson and Refugees United announced the two semi-finalists who will represent Kenya in the Global Hack for Good Championship Winners will be announced on World Refugee Day on June 20th Nairobi, Kenya – ‘Hackathons’ are becoming increasingly popular in Nairobi, bringing together programmers, designers and developers who wish to spend the weekend networking, innovating and competing. This weekend, Ericsson and Refugees United hosted a special ‘Hack for Good’ in Kenya, which aimed to connect refugee families separated by war,…
May 20 13
Refugees United and Ericsson Announce Global Hack for Good to Connect Refugees to Missing Families
PRESS RELEASE — In order to raise awareness of the plight of refugees, and find new ways to reconnect refugee families in some of the most remote areas in the world, Ericsson and Refugees United will run a series of developer competitions leading up to World Refugee Day, on 20 June 2013. The number of forcibly displaced people around the world is measured now at 43 million. That is why it is urgent to reconnect families who have been separated due to conflict, war, and disaster. So far over 200,000 refugees have registered on the service, and the aim is to reach…
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